North Dakota

Menswear Mondays: Theater employee Daniel Barrett explains his on-the-go style

This weekend was filled with snow, which meant the few people who were out and about bundled up. Now the time has come for some to commence their work weeks and others to take off on spring break. During these white-washed early days of spring, we spotted Daniel Barrett, a North Dakota native who wo ... More >>

Can hemp escape the role of marijuana's sober stepsister?

See also: Top ten hemp legends: Which myths are true -- and which went up in smoke?

Olive Garden's "Dinner Today & Dinner Tomorrow" -- how do you double unlimited breadsticks?

When 86-year-old newspaper columnist Marilyn Hagerty wrote her now-famous review of a North Dakota Olive Garden back in March, I wouldn't say that her story changed the path of restaurant reviews everywhere -- or even anywhere. But it did give food writers, myself included, an appreciation for the f ... More >>

Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle, on the "Hamdog" bomb

Duncan Smith Dazzle 930 Lincoln Street 303-839-5100 www.dazzlejazz.com This is part on of my interview with Duncan Smith, exec chef of Dazzle. Part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. Here's what you'll find in Duncan Smith's refrigerator at home: a six-pack of beer, several ... More >>

Marijuana: Industrial hemp study bill approved, but hurdles remain

With the passing of HB 1099 yesterday, which creates a soil remediation study using hemp as the filtering agent, Colorado could be the first state in the nation to grow industrial hemp since the late 1930s. But passing the bill was just the first obstacle. Actually implementing the plan might be mo ... More >>

Five reasons why Marilyn Hagerty is good for the restaurant industry

Marilyn Hagerty , the 85-year-old woman who's the "Eat Beat" columnist at the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota, has been getting an abundance of press since her review of the Olive Garden went viral. Marilyn-mania began with her original review of the popular Italian chain, which had some readers ... More >>

CU Environmental Center hosts Aspen Skiing Company VP Auden Schendler tonight

What does climate change have to do with skiing and snowboarding? Everything, according to Auden Schendler -- Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, board member of Protect Our Winters, and author of Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolu ... More >>

Boulder is America's happiest city, Colorado 5th happiest state, says Gallup Well-Being survey

More pics below.​The Daily Beast recently dubbed Denver America's angriest city -- but there's a lot of happiness nearby. Last year, Boulder was dubbed the happiest U.S. city in a Gallup Well-Being Index survey, and the community has repeated the feat. But that's not all. Look below to see oth ... More >>

Snow wildfires and other coming Super Storms: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ Combine the uncertainties of global climate change with the usual crazy Colorado springtime weather for these frightening future forecasts...

KISS kicks off Cheyenne Frontier Days, skips over Denver

​In possibly one of the strangest bills yet, we've just learned that KISS is slated to kick off this year's Cheyenne Frontier Days and rodeo on Friday, July 23. The other acts on the bill, we think you'll agree, are slightly less incongruous: Brooks & Dunn, Aaron Tippin & Neal McCoy, Clay Walk ... More >>

Top 10 bad boyfriends -- as inspired by Operation Cock Block target Bill Sullivan

Watch out, ladies.​ If Bill Sullivan were on trial for being a bad boyfriend, we're pretty sure he'd be found guilty. Exhibit A? The evidence presented by his exes in this week's feature, " ." We're also sure that Bill would have lots of company in Bad Boyfriend Jail. To prove it, we've compi ... More >>

The guys who called Coloradans' d*cks small: Shmucks of the Week

"I'm small, but I'm powerful."​So ...I love city and state rankings. I even wrote a whole ode to them once. I'm fully aware that they're complete bullshit, just bait for us desperate blogger-types to suck down and spit out in the form of free publicity for whichever company pulled the alleged ... More >>

Haeley Vaughn is Colorado's great American Idol hope

For a while, it looked as if the most notable thing to happen at the Denver auditions for American Idol would be the death of a dog left locked in a car by an idiotic wannabe from North Dakota. Frankly, most of the contestants seen receiving golden tickets to Hollywood during last night's Denver-b ... More >>

Kenny Be's Friday Afternoon Club: Deb Obermeyer and John Huggins at Davie's Locker

​ "By the time you get that commuter rail line out to Thornton, most Adams County residents will be commuting to their jobs in North Dakota by hydrogen-powered time machines."

Ken Salazar's gotta be happy: The black-tailed prairie dog isn't endangered after all

Stop resting easy, pal. You're not endangered anymore.​Last December, when President Barack Obama first announced the nomination of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior, Tucson's Center for Biological Diversity criticized the choice, claiming that Salazar's environmental r ... More >>

Shmuck of the Week: The Idol audition dog-killer

Sometimes we have to dig a little to find a shmuck worthy of our weekly dishonor. And sometimes, a dude lets his girlfriend's terrier die a slow death out in the car while he watches her audition for American Idol. Oh, Quincy Vanderbilt from North Dakota. You could have done so many things diffe ... More >>

An American Idol audition that killed a dog

A Flickr photo"No golden ticket for you." The American Idol auditions that turned Invesco Field at Mile High into an ear-damage danger zone for three days earlier this week racked up at least one casualty. Quincy Vanderbilt, a 24-year-old North Dakotan was charged with animal cruelty and given an A ... More >>

Cheers! We're not number three in binge-drinking

The report in today's Rocky Mountain News was a real eye-opener (and we're not talking a Bloody Mary): According to Bill Scanlan's "State fades a little in health stats," Colorado fell from the 16th to the 19th healthiest state in the latest report from America's Health Rankings, largely ... More >>

Geek in the Galley

Q&A with author Chuck Klosterman

Chucking It

Memoirist Chuck Klosterman ditches first person to write a novel.

Party Central

Delegating Denver #38 of 56: North Dakota

Jesus Loves Irony

Delegating Denver #30 of 56: Montana

Phantom Canyon Brewing Company

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Celeste Krenz

Saturday, January 21, Swallow Hill Music Hall, 303-777-1003.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 5, 2006

Bling Twango

Big & Rich deliver country music without prejudice.

Flick Pick

Lili's Apron

Best Slip of the Tongue by a Colorado Politician

Pete Coors

Wonnerful, Wonnerful Welk

Lawrence's music bubbles on.

Daily Double

Bill Schantz and Paul Bailey are beating the odds.

Cold Fusion

Colder Than Fargo's brittle compositions thrive in spite of the frozen terrain that frames them.

Power to the People

The answer could be blowing in the wind.

If the Snowshoe Fits

Winter Women's Workshop is hot

Buggin' Out

Russell Johnson wages a war on weeds at Cherry Creek State Park.

Underdogs Outclass Fat Cats

Chump-change baseball teams find a pot of gold in the early season.

Best new concession item

Italian sodas

Iced Out

The Denver Curling Club searches for respect after five years without a home.

Keep On Rockin', Baby

Guitarist Shannon Curfman brings something new to the teen craze. It's called talent.

Where the Buffalo Moan

They’ve been worshiped, they’ve been slaughtered. Now bison are back—so why won’t you buy some burger?

Letters

Hut Stuff!

Off Limits

Head Case

A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Law Review

Seeds of Discontent

Kansas farmers say their weather-modification program causes rain. Colorado farmers say it causes trouble.

Corn and Callousness

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